![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Getting Acquainted With Engineering (Part I)
Discusses the problem of capable boys who are lost to engineering because of their misconceptions about the type of work involved. Stresses the importance of high school background, testing and counseling. Narrator: E.R. Buuman.
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| Sound And The Story - Handy (Jam) Organization
RCA Victor presents Sound and the Story, copyright Radio Corporation of America
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Media: Phonograph; Perception: Sound
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| Oil Today - Power Tomorrow
The story of how oil is brought to the earth's surface and turned into power. Emphasizes the men who work in the oil industry and the significance of oil as a source of power and heat in today's modern world.
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| Our Texas Heritage
Depicts important historical events, from the establishment of Franciscan missions to the early 1900's. Illustrates the arrival of immigrants with their various cultures, the Texas Rangers and forts that helped to protect these pioneers, the Alamo and other battles to establish a republic, trail blazers with their longhorns, to prospectors who found natural resources, reveal why Texans are proud of their heritage.
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| Motivation and Reward in Learning - Yale University, Institute of Human Relations
Uses white rats to picture trial-and-error problem solving and to demonstrate the importance of motivation and reward in the learning process.
Keywords: Psychology; Animals: Rats
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| Boulder Dam (Part I) - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in collaboration with Six Companies, Inc. and The Babcock & Wilcox Company
Shows the beginning of construction on the Hoover Dam (later called Boulder Dam) project in southern Nevada. With excellent footage of Boulder City, the model housing community built to provide residences for project workers.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Dams; Boulder Dam; Nevada
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| Sentinel in the Sky - Strauss (Henry) and Company, Inc.
Modern radar for passenger aircraft. Shows how man has always reached for vision of the things beyond his sight, beginning, perhaps, with the ancient sailor who first climbed the mast to see over the horizon. In modern times the quest has led to such airborne aids as the gyro compass, horizon indicator and radio direction finding navigational systems. Sequences on radar show its basics and how it works in modern planes...
Keywords: Animation; Radar; Aviation: Navigation
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| Pursuit Of Profit
Presents a survey of independent businesses to show how free enterprise operates and contributes to the strength and stability of the country.
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| No Time for Ugliness (Part I)
Shows that cities' approaches are marred by billboards and neon signs. Intimates that a demanding citizenry can have these unsightly signs removed.
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| Social Seminar: Guy
Presents the experiences of Guy, a 15-year-old Mexican-American who spends a great deal of time stoned on reds. Shows his flight into passivity and escape from the realities of an ungiving environment. Questions why he needs to escape and what should change in his surroundings to make his life more challenging.
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| We the People
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| Programmer with Magic Memory: Another Newsmaker - Handy (Jam) Organization
Presents a special device that automatically tunes in your favorite preselected TV shows. This is a silent film.
Keywords: Media: Television; Leisure; User interfaces
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| Success in Business - Unknown
Story of a middle-class white-collar worker who finds the way to succeed in business, making his wife and family happy and enjoying affluence.
Keywords: Business; Occupations: Clerical
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| To Enrich Mankind
A man in white coat talking to Archimedes in room full of stone and bronze busts of famous scientists researchers. We learn about how machines have improved Western civilization.
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| Fun That Builds Good Health, The - Coronet
Presents a variety of choices of recreation in terms of good times and good health. Director: Gil Altschul. Cameraman: Bruce Colling. Writers: George Tychsen, Hartley Pfeil, Full. Editor: Dick Kirschner. Narrator: George Stone. Educational Collaborator: Erwin F. Beyer, Department of Physical Education, The University of Chicago.
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| Trail of the Rocket (Part I) - Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.
Singers Lucille and Johnny, whose radio show is sponsored by Oldsmobile, are invited to visit the Olds factory to see why the product is superior. While touring the plant, Johnny becomes concerned that another visitor is a Martian spy dedicated to subverting Earth's autonomy. Some might call this film a McCarthyite allegory; others a slow-moving plant tour. Story: Gordon Miller. Camera: John Niklasch...
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Automobiles: Manufacturing; Cold War
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| Which Way This Time?
Shows how disastrous inflation during and after World War II was prevented by government controls. Depicts the depressions and misery that post-war inflations have caused.
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| Boulder Dam (Parts III and IV) - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in collaboration with Six Companies, Inc. and The Babcock & Wilcox Company
Shows the beginning of construction on the Hoover Dam (later called Boulder Dam) project in southern Nevada. With excellent footage of Boulder City, the model housing community built to provide residences for project workers.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Dams; Boulder Dam; Nevada
Downloads: 4,816
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| Holiday for Bill (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cliche-ridden rural/urban improbable romance concocted to promote Ford tractors.
Keywords: Rural America; Music; Gender roles
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| Something to Be Proud Of (Part I)
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| Subversion And Espionage Directed Against The Military
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| Our Shrinking World - Young America Films, Inc.
How developments in transportation and communication are hastening globalization.
Keywords: Globalization
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| Open Road A - Bethlehem Steel Company
Educational film about how steel is used to make highways, including problems that occur with time and use.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and Highways; Civil Engineering; City Planning; Metals: Steel: Steel Industry
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| Profile: Jamison Handy (Part I) - WWJ-TV (Detroit)
Interview with Jam Handy (1886-1983), pioneer producer of sponsored and industrial films. The program, hosted by WWJ-TV host Bob Leslie, has low sound level throughout, but is included here because of its historical importance.
Keywords: Motion pictures: History; Motion pictures: Sponsored; Sales: Training
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| Sound Waves And Their Sources
Sources of sounds and characteristics of sound waves, shown by means of oscilloscopes and animated diagrams.
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| Suggestion Box - U.S. Office of War Information
How war plant workers made suggestions that resulted in efficiency and economy.
Keywords: World War II: Homefront; World War II: Industrial production
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| Light Of Your Life A - General Electric
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Motion Pictures: In Education; Electricity; Perception: Light
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| I Am a Doctor (Part I)
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| This Nations Power
Shows marvelous precision tools & machines in Chevrolet plants used in making that automobiles. Further shows ingenious design of Chevrolet.
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| Censorship: A Question of Judgment? - Horizon Productions Services
Should the sponsor of a high-school newspaper have the power to determine whether a picture of a student fight should be printed?
Keywords: Social guidance; Censorship
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| Photography - Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Careers in photography and cinematography.
Keywords: Occupations: Photography; Media: Photography; Motion pictures: Production
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| Making A Difference By Making The Grade - U.S. Department of Defense
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Government; Military; Society: Education
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| Time For Coffee - William J. Ganz Company
Title card: This film was made possible by the cooperation of: The A&P Coffee Division and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Agriculture: Food Industry; Beverage Industry; Coffee
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| Southwestern States, Second Edition - Encyclopedia Britannica
Portrays life in areas of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. Refers to the topography, rainfall, stock raising and mining industries.
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| Story of Carpet, The
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| Surprise For Jean - John W. Barnes and Gordon Weisenborn.
Jean's mother plans a surprise party for Jean on her sixth birthday. While Jean and Frank are on an errand, Jean's friends come, hide and surprise her when she gets back. Associate Producers: John W. Barnes and Gordon Weisenborn. In collaboration with Willard Abraham, Ph.D., Roosevelt College. From the Primary Reading series.
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| Bicycle Today, Automobile Tomorrow
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| Pork People Like - Gliessman Studios
Ag film illustrating the different qualities of pork and showing how to acquire the best in meat purchases.
Keywords: Meat: Production
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| Focus Leader 02
Focus Leader, Caterpillar Style!
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| Company Profile (Part I)
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| Gospel Dynamite - Baptista (C.O.)
Charles O. Baptista, a Venezulean-born, US-educated piano salesman, started Scriptures Visualized Institute to produce educational and evangelism films. The films stood out since they often used very simple concepts and animation to bring their message to public. During World War II, projectors were in short supply, so the company partnered with audiovisual manufacturer Devry to create the Miracle Projector an inexpensive projector that was thus more accessible to churches...
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| Secure the Blessings - Affiliated Film Producers
Shows how American schoolchildren are taught the value of democracy, freedom and good citizenship.
Keywords: Citizenship; Society: Education; Cold War
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| Postwar Germany: 28 Months After V-E Day (Part I) - Weirton Steel Company
Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and factories. Amateur film made by George T. Fonda, assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Company.
Keywords: World War II: Postwar issues; World War II: Germany; Germany
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| Barry Goldwater Speaks Out - UPI Newspix
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| Safe In Port
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| Dial D For Design (Pt 1) - Cinefonics, Inc.
Produced by Cinefonics, Inc (a division of Cook Research Laboratories) and based on Engineering and Systems Integration Studies by Cook Research Laboratories. Written and Produced by Charles O. Probst, Directed by Ronald S. Klein. Opening title card: The purpose of this film is to illustrate a method to design, develop and test integrated displays and controls in accordance with MIL-P-25996. Obviously specific procedures vary according to contracts and projects...
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Motion Pictures: Industrial; Engineering; Weapons
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| Responsibility - Centron Corporation
Teaching teenagers to come up with their own sense of responsibility.
Keywords: Social guidance
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| You and Your Bicycle - Progressive Pictures
Bicycle safety film for children, shot on the streets of Oakland and Berkeley, California. Features numerous examples of safe and unsafe cycle riding, simulated accidents, and scenes of post-World War II East Bay streets and sidewalks.
Keywords: Bicycles; Bicycles: Safety; San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland
Downloads: 11,232
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| Park Conscious - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Elegy to recreation and relaxation in state and national parks.
Keywords: Recreation; Parks; Nature
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| Activity Group Therapy (Part I) - Campus Film Distributors Corporation
Shows socially-maladjusted boys 10 to 11 years old being benefitted therapeutically by "acting out" their disturbances upon their environment and each other in a realistic situation with an emotionally neutral therapist and concealed cameras and microphones. A fascinating mental health film produced for professional audiences, depicting truly anarchic behavior.
Keywords: Psychology; Medicine: Psychiatry; Children: Psychology
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